Overview
Overview
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Many managers and employees struggle to meet the ever-increasing demands of their jobs. Double-booked schedules, changing priorities, and countless distractions challenge even the most organized individuals. This class provides extremely valuable tools and practices to prioritize mission-critical activities, plot out your day, manage multiple tasks, minimize distractions, and control unreasonable demands. The class is very hands on: participants engage in numerous exercises around time management best practices. Topics include:
- Identify and prioritize high-return activities
- Cultivate will power
- Improve your focus
- Build breathing room into your schedule
- Make tangible progress on important activities
- Set boundaries with unreasonable or unachievable requests
Prerequisites
This course has no prerequisites.
Course Outline
Course Outline
Lesson 1: Take Stock
- Determine Work That Matters
- Too Much Stress versus Not Enough Stress
- Your Personal Productivity Style
Lesson 2: Plan Your Day
- The Critical Importance of Planning
- Align Time Management to Your Goals
- Four-Step Tool to Help Reach Your Goals
- Using Agile Sprints to Accomplish Your Goals
- Commit Less; Accomplish More
- Saying, “No” Appropriately
- The Right and Wrong People to Ignore
- Cultural Shift: Giving Yourself Permission to Work Less
Lesson 3: Finding Focus
- Minimizing Office Distractions
- Train Your Brain to Focus
- Things That Kill Your Focus
- Willpower Over Distractions
- Mindfulness Through the Workday
Lesson 4: Take Time Off
- Upcoming Vacations Should Increase Your Work Stress
- Critical Work to Accomplish Before a Vacation; and Non-Critical Work Options
- Resuming Work with Minimal Pain